Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
- ISBN-10
- 1596916818
- ISBN-13
- 9781596916814
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 432
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09-17
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Author
- Craig Steven Wilder
Description
A leading African-American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery and the American academy, revealing that our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
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- 2014-09-02
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